Help!!

[Nitewolfie]

Sorry for the pics ending bad, but the best I can do. He's also still in a twenty gallon and im trying to make or find a smaller hide or humidity box so he has more room to roam.

[bcr229]

Sigh. Nix the Pedialite and Gatorate. You don't want sugar in those wounds. Just water for rehydrating is fine, and keep the humidity as high as you can. Cover the tops of the enclosures with foil or plastic wrap to keep more humidity inside.

If they take frozen/thaw mice then offer the feeder wet, which will also help rehydrate the snakes.

I would remove that cave hide - it's too big for your snake anyway - and replace the water bowl with something bigger, like a Pyrex 9x9 baking dish, which will help increase the humidity and allow the snake to soak if it wants to.

[Nitewolfie]

I typically soak my snakes in sea salt water about every other week, more or less. I'll probably soak him in sea salt water every other day, and the other days just regular water. Not sure if I should do the betadine water in case he drinks some.
Will do when I feed him f/t(previous owner says him and the female will eat f/t, but not the youngest one- which is in good health that i've seen so far). Any ideas on when to feed him next though?
I will take the hide out, since he's not even using it anyway, and put a bigger water dish in there. Not sure if I have a Pyrex 9x9 though, but i'm sure I have something I could use.
Thank you so much by the way guys!!

[cristacake]

Where did you come up with soaking in salt water? What is it supposed to help with?

[Freakie_frog]

Just for all those who were wondering the pedialite was for drinking not soaking. I know I didn't really specify. Sorry about that.

[Nitewolfie]

The sea salt was something my mother told me to do(whose had BP experience for somewhere around 10-20 years now? I think over 20 years? not sure)

What would the pedialite do now? How would I give it to him?

[Freakie_frog]

The sea salt was something my mother told me to do(whose had BP experience for somewhere around 10-20 years now? I think over 20 years? not sure)

What would the pedialite do now? How would I give it to him?

Its a way to get him rehydrated if hes still dehydrated. To give it to him you'd poor it in his water dish instead of water for 24 hours then replace it with water.. You don't keen much the salt in it can reek havoc on their already fragile kidneys.

[Nitewolfie]

Update: This is so depressing news and thank you all for your input in this, but Kenichi has passed(the worst one of the three I rescued) we're pretty sure of.

[bcr229]

I'm sorry. It hurts to lose one after doing all you could for it. Hopefully the others will pull through.

[Ax01]

i'm so sorry to hear that.



u did a good thing rescuing them and u tried. sometimes they're just too far gone. i hope it goes better for the other 2.